Part 1 I’ve been interested in depression for most of my life. When I was five years old my middle-aged father became increasingly depressed because he couldn’t make a living supporting his family. In despair, he took an overdose of sleeping pills. Fortunately, he didn’t die, but our lives were never the same. He was
“The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine ‘privilege’ and power,” said Dr. Herb Goldberg in his book The Hazards of Being Male. “He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying himself—emotionally,
This is the second of a two-part series on the female father wound. If you haven’t yet read part 1, you can do so here. Why Is It So Difficult to Recognize That the Father Wound is at the Core of Our Relationship Problems? The loss of a parent is traumatic and we tend
I’ve been dealing with the family father wound my whole life, but it has taken me a long time to recognize how prevalent the father wound is in the lives of men and women and how the female father wound can harm our health and destroy our relationships. If you visit my website, MenAlive.com, you
Welcome to the third installment of this three-part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. The idea of MenAlive began on November 21, 1969 with the birth of our first son, Jemal. Over the years MenAlive was grown from a commitment to my son to be a different kind of
In Part 1, we explored how the wolf metaphor has been viewed as negative and how the introduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park created positive changes that can offer us real guidance about how to heal mankind and humanity. Mark Pirtle, author of Is Your story Making You Sick: Heal Your Story, Heal
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